Avid 110 Flashcards
How can you view the audio waveforms of your source material?
Toggle Source Record on Timeline
What do you do with a waveform without much definition? (A brick waveform)
Command Option K
Which editing functions are you most likely to break sync with?
Splice OR Extract
Leaves gaps in timeline
Yellow CAUTION
How would you mark a source clip so it’s back-timed?
Use only an out-mark on your source
What is the difference between Lift vs extract?
Lift removes a clip and leaves a gap
Extract removes a clip without leaving a gap and moves all clips forward (extract is for taking out a scene)
How do you change the default segment mode for when you Drag and drop?
- Right click
- Timeline settings
- Change the segment mode
What are two ways to add audio/video tracks?
Right click to add new track Or drag the original clip above Shortcut- command y (video) Command u (audio) Command option y (select which track)
What is one method or shortcut to adjust gain?
+/- then put in a number
arrows up and down (in increments of 1/10 DB)
Shift option modifiers
Digital Audio Scrub?
Hold shift
hear the audio preview
What is a match frame/thru edit?
Looks like an equals sign in white
When you cut a shot in half, on either side of the line the frames are adjacent
Has two white equals marks to say there is no media missing
If the equals sign is red that means the splice is not in the same state, or one side has an effect on it
What impact does ripple trim have on a track or a sequence?
It’ll move everything down or upstream
How do you make a change to a transition effect in the timeline?
Transition manipulation tool
Three types of effects
- Transition effects
- segment effects (applied to entire segment to change the look of the shot)
- motion effects
After a clip is stabilized how do you compare the clips?
In the parameters box you can turn the clip on and off
How do you lock down a shot with the stabilize effect?
Deselect steady glide
Steady glide by default turns on, locked down means deselecting
When using automatic color correction whats the order?
HSL, Contrast, balance
When using automatic color correction in curves?
-CBC
Curves balance contrast
Under what category is the fluid morph effect located?
Illusion Category
Is fluid morph a real time effect?
- No (you have to render it)
- Green dots are for real time effects
- Blue dot will show up in the timeline
- FX palette there won’t be a color dot
What do the enlarge and reduce buttons in the effect preview button do?
Rescale the image to manipulate the size by dragging the corners
How do you add an effect to a timeline on top of an existing effect?
- Add option modifier to adding an fx
- Auto-nesting?
-adding another fx to an fx - Two ways to view effects?
Expanded nest- double click→ you can hear audio and have access to entire timeline
Simple nest- use arrows on timeline→ advantage is you only see the nested clips of that clip
Command tab helps you go through all your open tabs
3 types of motion effects: freeze frame
Motion fx
And timewarp
How do you make freeze frames?
Generated from source clip
How are motion effects created?
Generated from a source clip
in and out and then you choose the speed
Which time-based effects are create new media, and which ones are applied to segments?
Freeze frame and motion are created from source
Timewarp is applied
How many marks are needed for FIT TO FILL
NEED FOUR MARKS FOR FIT TO FILL
In and out on source and in and out on timeline
Types of rendering → 4 types of processing
Duplicated fields (Default): You never use it Progressive scan: You want to change it to both fields (no interfiled motion, good for stills) Interpolated: for interlaced footage VTR Style: used for making footage smooth (older footage) Don’t use on your footage or slow footage
What are the steps to revise a title?
—> Put position indicator on the clip
—> activate only that track
—> Effect editor tool
What color option should you choose to export for playback on a computer?
Full range
Which function can be used to find the media for a clip?
reveal file
Three letters of the start of the media file?
MSM
When should you consolidate?
When you want to move media
Which setting will resize an image to fit the frame?
image size for current format
What is a group clip?
A set of master clips with a common element
Keyboard shortcut for creating a group clip?
Command, shift, G
What is the shortcut to view a popup menu to view previously entered values in a custom column?
Option Click
How is extend similar to trim?
Extend will never throw you out of sync, rolling trim
What allows you to change the edit point between two clips in the timeline?
Double sided rollers
What is the difference between using find or the search?
Search allows you to specify
Find is broad
What value would you type to advance the playhead two seconds?
+200
Trim mode:
P, Left bracket right bracket
How do you get into trim mode?
Press U Click transition button Lasso A or S Double click
TRIM hot keys
M— left 8 frames
, . /
?– right 8 frames
What function is associated with the play button when in trim mode?
-it plays loop
When you look at the timeline how do you distinguish between slip or slide?
-the position of the pink rollers
Inside of clip—> slip
Outside of clip—>slide
How can you ensure you maintain sync with using trim?
-turn on sync locks
Which audio mixer mode enables audio key framing?
Auto
What function is used to create panning effect for still images? What is the way to create dynamic pan and etc. effects?
Frame flex
Name two source settings?
- color encoding
- Frame flex
- Temporal adapter
If you reframe a shot using frame flex on a clip in a bin how do you update the sequence to show the changes?
- select sequence in bin
- clip menu, refresh sequences
- aspect ratio and reformatting options
What are the four types of keyframe interpolation and what effect do they have on the movement between the keyframes?
Spline: Where its a fluid change of speed, auto eases
DEFAULT: Linear: no eases, the change in value is still gradual
Shelf: holds keyframe value until the next keyframe, sudden looking, no eases
Bezier: moveable handles, creates eases but has additional refinement
What are the three types of retiming effects?
Freeze frame
Motion effects
Timewarp
How are freeze frames created
Source clip
How are motion clips created?
Source clip
In terms of edit marks How does creating a motion effect via the fit to fill command differ from creating one via motion effect command?
You need four marks
How are time warp effects created?
Applied to the clip
How do you control where the blur affects the image?
Activating tracking tool
Which button can be used to create a rectangle
The rectangle
Arrow is used to select and move shapes
The line with the circle allows to to resize
The square with the square in it activates tracking
What is the inner box in a tracker called?
Defining area called the reference pattern
Outer box in a tracker is called…
The search region
How is the reference pattern used?
Defines the pixels that are going to be followed and tracked
The search region is used as a correlation area?
Searches the area for the reference pattern
How is a 3d picture and picture effect different from other effects you’ve worked with?
Its 3-d it adds Z rotation
When a 3d effect is applied it automatically resizes a clip by 50%
When moving a clip vertically what keys do you have to hold down to make sure they don’t change position or timing?
Command shift
What button in the display editor displays the keyframe editor
A little L- show or hide the key Frame option
If you add a keyframe to the keyframe position bar under the effect preview monitor, what parameters are keyframes?
-all of them
What does the reverse keyframe do?
It reverses the order of the keyframes
How do you see expanded nesting
Double clicking on the clip in the timeline
entire timeline and audio
playback performance indicator colors?
tell you why you need to render:
- yellow is taxing your cpu
- blue is taxing your drive
- red is dropping frames
What does the clear renders command do?
- does not delete render files
- breaks the link between effect and its render
Purpose of a garbage matte?
-roughly remove unwanted materials in the frame
The purpose of a garbage matte is NOT to remove full color
Transparent layer of video is a….
matte channel
How do you remove the correct color?
key color
What parameter in spectra matte can remove unwanted elements? Similar to garbage matte?
Crop
What is the Alpha in source monitor menu selection used for?
-alpha Channel
What is the effect of adjusting the value of the tolerance parameter?
defines the width of the spread of the wedge in the spectrograph
Name two tools that can be helpful for live review sessions?
- timecode burner
- timecode window—> bigger
What effect can be used to add a watermark?
- timecode burn in
What might be one reason the timecode window is grayed out?
-hardware is not configured
The system is configured to output through hardware
(Toggles connect to hardware on and off)
What does the video mix down do?
-when you have way too many video tracks
-to create a sequence that’s going to be re-used a lot
-Called flattening
A video mixdown DOES create new media
What is an audio mix down used for?
used for mixing or finalizing audio within avid
What’s the difference between send to and export
send to—> pre-made template for other programs
export you can customize and refine the settings—> edit parameters
What color level option should you use when exporting for playback on a computer?
-scale from legal to full
How do you create color bars and reference tone in avid?
-create tone media using audio tool
What function can be used to find the media for a clip?
-reveal file
What can you use to see render files/ precomputes on a drive?
-media tool
Why is it important to open a sequence bin before you search?
-it won’t search unopened bins
